THE NATURAL-HISTORY CATALOGUE
A branch of the living world.
110,000 accepted animal species, linked through classification, synonyms, distributions and source literature.
These attributed records come from Catalogue of Life, 2026-09-11. Detail varies; they are not all fully researched, illustrated articles. Browse researched folklore and fiction.
Matches documented source distribution records. Geographic coverage is incomplete.
Family: Varanidae · Clear filter
51 records · page 1 of 2
| Species | Classification | Source status |
|---|---|---|
| Ridgetail MonitorVaranus acanthurus Boulenger, 1885 | VaranidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Rock monitorVaranus albigularis (Daudin, 1802) | VaranidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Bangon Monitor LizardVaranus bangonorum Welton, Travers, Siler & Brown, 2014 | VaranidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Sierra Madre forest monitorVaranus bitatawa Welton, Siler, Bennett, Diesmos, Duya, Dugay, Rico, Van Weerd & Brown, 2010 | VaranidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Varanus boehmei Jacobs, 2003 | VaranidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Bogert's MonitorVaranus bogerti Mertens, 1950 | VaranidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Caspian MonitorVaranus caspius (Eichwald, 1831) | VaranidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Line-tailed Pygmy MonitorVaranus caudolineatus Boulenger, 1885 | VaranidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Cuming’s water monitorVaranus cumingi Martin, 1839 | VaranidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Enteng’s Monitor LizardVaranus dalubhasa Welton, Travers, Siler & Brown, 2014 | VaranidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Varanus delcantoi Patschke, Koch, Schmitz & Böhme, 2025 | VaranidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Bluetail MonitorVaranus doreanus (Meyer, 1874) | VaranidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| New Ireland MonitorVaranus douarrha (Lesson, 1829) | VaranidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Dumeril MonitorVaranus dumerilii Schlegel, 1839 | VaranidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Rusty Desert MonitorVaranus eremius Lucas & Frost, 1895 | VaranidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Savannah MonitorVaranus exanthematicus (Bosc, 1792) | VaranidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Varanus finschi Böhme, Horn & Ziegler, 1994 | VaranidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Kimberley Rock MonitorVaranus glauerti Mertens, 1957 | VaranidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Southern Pilbara Rock GoannaVaranus hamersleyensis Maryan, Oliver, Fitch & O'Connell, 2014 | VaranidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Black-spotted Ridge-tailed MonitorVaranus insulanicus Mertens, 1958 | VaranidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Komodo DragonVaranus komodoensis Ouwens, 1912 | VaranidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Talaud mangrove monitorVaranus lirungensis Koch, Arida, Schmitz, Böhme & Ziegler, 2009 | VaranidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Varanus mabitang Gaulke & Curio, 2001 | VaranidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Blue Tree MonitorVaranus macraei Böhme & Jacobs, 2001 | VaranidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Banggai Island monitorVaranus melinus Böhme & Ziegler, 1997 | VaranidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Mitchell's Water MonitorVaranus mitchelli Mertens, 1958 | VaranidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Clouded MonitorVaranus nebulosus (Gray, 1831) | VaranidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Nesterov’s desert monitorVaranus nesterovi Böhme, Ehrlich, Milto, Orlov & Scholz, 2015 | VaranidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Nile MonitorVaranus niloticus (Linnaeus, 1766) | VaranidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Varanus nuchalis (Günther, 1872) | VaranidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Varanus obor Weijola & Sweet, 2010 | VaranidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Freckled MonitorVaranus orientalis Fry, 1913 | VaranidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Yellow-spotted MonitorVaranus panoptes Storr, 1980 | VaranidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Yellow-headed rock monitorVaranus phosphoros Zozaya, Read, Macor, Pavón-Vázquez, Gale, Wright & Broady, 2026 | VaranidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Northern Pilbara Rock MonitorVaranus pilbarensis Storr, 1980 | VaranidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Varanus rasmusseni Koch, Gaulke & Böhme, 2010 | VaranidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Heath MonitorVaranus rosenbergi Mertens, 1957 | VaranidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Roughneck MonitorVaranus rudicollis (Gray, 1845) | VaranidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Crocodile MonitorVaranus salvadorii (Peters & Doria, 1878) | VaranidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Samar water monitorVaranus samarensis Koch, Gaulke & Böhme, 2010 | VaranidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Rusty MonitorVaranus semiremex Peters, 1869 | VaranidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Varanus similis Mertens, 1958 | VaranidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Dampier Peninsula GoannaVaranus sparnus Doughty, Kealley, Fitch & Donnellan, 2014 | VaranidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Solomon Island Spiny MonitorVaranus spinulosus Mertens, 1941 | VaranidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Varanus tanimbar Weijola & Kraus, 2023 | VaranidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Varanus telenesetes Sprackland, 1991 | VaranidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Auffenberg’s MonitorVaranus timorensis (Gray, 1831) | VaranidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Mariana monitorVaranus tsukamotoi Kishida, 1929 | VaranidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Orange-headed rock monitorVaranus umbra Zozaya, Read, Macor, Pavón-Vázquez, Gale, Wright & Broady, 2026 | VaranidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Varanus yuwonoi Harvey & Barker, 1998 | VaranidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
51 records · page 1 of 2
Source and selection
Bánki, O., Roskov, Y., Döring, M., Ower, G., Hernández Robles, D. R., Plata Corredor, C. A., Stjernegaard Jeppesen, T., Örn, A., Pape, T., Hobern, D., Garnett, S., Little, H., DeWalt, R. E., Miller, J., Orrell, T., Aalbu, R., Abbott, J., Aedo, C., Aescht, E., et al. (2026). Catalogue of Life (Version 2026-09-11). Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgz5n
First records in source order under phylum quotas, then source-order overflow if a quota is short. This is a selective snapshot. Source name strings can include author names, which are also searchable.